[arcaster]

I generally have workflows that heavily utilize docker, i.e. use at least 2GB, docker compose on my MBP can take up to 6-8 minutes.

For me it's still unclear how much of a real advantage IPC provides for common tasks or non-parallel process a developer might be running.

[floatboth]

Higher single thread performance is higher single thread performance, no matter if achieved via higher clock, doing more per clock ("IPC"), or both.

If you run one non-parallel task, the 7700K will be faster. If you run many non-parallel tasks in… parallel (make -j16), the 1700 will be seriously faster.